Door programma's als Google Earth zijn we gewend geraakt aan het perspectief van de satelliet, de god’s eye view. Wat doet dit met de relatie die we hebben tot onze omgeving? Door gebruik te maken van verschillende Google-applicaties reflecteren kunstenaars op de veranderende verhouding tot de buitenwereld …

Privacy, copyright, classified documents and state secrets, but also spontaneous network phenomena like flash mobs and hashtag revolutions, reveal one thing – we lost control over the digital world. We experience a digital tailspin, or as Michael Seemann calls it in this essay: a loss of control or Kontrollverlust. …

About this publication: Computer mediated interpersonal interactions are defining our daily lives as we know it. Studying this phenomenon with various methodologies, across different cultures and traditions is a crucial component in understanding social ties. This book brings together articles that approach …

About this publication: What is the correlation among the creative industries, creative industry policies, new media paradigms and capitalism as colonial relations of dominance? What is the role of these industries in the prioritization of the interests of capital at the expense of those of society and …

Artikel in dagblad Trouw over Facebook gebruik. De auteur stelt dat er een moment komt dat Facebook uit elkaar valt.

The use of the word “social” in the context of information technology goes back to the very beginnings of cybernetics. It later pops up in the 1980s context of “groupware.” The recent materialist school of Friedrich Kittler and others dismissed the use of the word “social” as irrelevant fluff – what …

Während die meisten Facebook-User noch mit Freund-Werden, »Liken« und Kommentieren beschäftigt sind, ist es an der Zeit, auch die Konsequenzen unserer informationsübersättigten Lebensweise zu betrachten. Warum machen wir so fleißig bei den sozialen Netzwerken mit? Und wie hängt unsere Fixierung auf Identität …

A manifesto written by Geert Lovink and Franco Berardi in which they call for action against the influence of financial markets, which are destroying the foundations of social civilization.